Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Qatar and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Grandmaster Flash to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
The Remains,
Moebius,
Thompson Twins,
These Immortal Souls,
Robert Hood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Neil Young,
Fatback Band,
Rekid,
Max Romeo,
The Angels of Light,
The Misunderstood,
X-101,
Brass Construction,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Metal Thangz,
John Foxx,
Tim Buckley,
Barclay James Harvest,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Hasil Adkins,
Peter and Kerry,
Marmalade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scott Walker,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sandy B,
Echospace,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Zapp,
Mo-Dettes,
Sixth Finger,
Man Eating Sloth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Dirtbombs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Flipper,
Lakeside,
Groovy Waters,
Blake Baxter,
Sällskapet,
The Golliwogs,
The Red Krayola,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
New York Dolls,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Moon,
Johnny Osbourne,
JFA,
The Trojans,
Deepchord,
The Victims,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rosa Yemen,
The Grass Roots,
Second Layer,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.